Nat Turner's Revenge: RIP Jerry (and George Carlin)

Monday, June 23, 2008

RIP Jerry (and George Carlin)

Jerry Rodriguez...award-winning indie filmmaker, Brookyn in his blood, Puerto Rico in his soul. Fellow author. Pal. click here to see how tall this dude stood. His novels are instant classics; we'll dedicate the Darker Mask to him if the publisher can slip something in...

George Carlin. Lord what else can be said about him? I don't like the word "icon." Neither did he. But hell. Look, unlike most Americans he was insightful enough (a premium these days), to hold George Bush, Fox News , etc. in equal contempt with most liberals. Here was a man who could make something as banal as local TV news-sports-weather funnier than anything new comics can muster. He spanned eras. Oh yeah, here's one for you, George--FUCK the FCC!!! RIP, da bof' a youze. We'll keep fighting the good fight.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: The second Esperanza book came out already?

Prayers for his family.; 5:30 PM
Deocliciano Okssipin Vieira, aka Ochyming said...: George Carlin was some HERO!; 6:33 PM
Pebbles Flintstone said...: Chris,
This is a nice and fitting tribute to both of these talented guys. I have not read any of J. Rodriguez's novels, but I know of his talent. As you mentioned -- what else can said about Carlin? Nuttin!. He said it all! Very sad, but their legacies will live on.; 6:39 PM
Anonymous said...: There was some thing in the Daily News. I don't think it is an obit.

http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2008/06/23/2008-06-23_author_jerry_a_rodrguez_dies_at_46.html#community; 7:46 PM
Anonymous said...: Just came across the site searching through Abagond's blog roll. Been looking for a new author to read on the A train into work. Thanks.

Any suggestions on one to start with?

Feel free to check out my novel as well - I post a chapter a day and am looking for real feedback.

Thanks for this though.

-Stal; 1:59 PM
tchaka owen said...: George Carlin was something else. He and Richard Pryor are legends. Icons!; 11:47 PM

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A rare DC native, Christopher Chambers was born at Old Freedman’s Hospital at Howard University in the Nation’s Capital, and was raised at 1607 D Street NE when RFK Stadium was still just a vacant lot. He moved to Brooklyn NY and finally Baltimore, Maryland. He attended public schools in Baltimore City and County before attending the McDonogh School in Owings Mills, MD.

Mr. Chambers is an honors graduate of Princeton University and the University of Baltimore School of Law, where he was the first African American in the Law Review. Mr. Chambers served with the US Justice Department from 1994-1997, and taught English, Business Law and Communications at Queens University in Charlotte from 2000-2001. Now he’s lecturer in writing at University of Maryland, University College, and a Professor at Georgetown University’s/SCS Master's Program in Journalism. Mr. Chambers led panels writing, politics/culture, andwas keynote at Georgetown University’s Father Healy Dinner along with NBA Star Dikembe Mtumbo.

In 2001 Mr. Chambers left the world of law practice forever to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a writer. He’s published the FBI Agent Angela Bivens© series of mystery novels through Random House. The third novel in the series (unfinished) was sold to Lifetime TV. He’s the author of two short story collections, Shades of Black, and Intimacy, and has numerous short fiction works published in magazines such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen and ThugLit. 2009 will see the release of historical novel about slavery and the War of 1812/Burning of Washington, DC, Yella Patsy’s Boys, and his re-interpretative novel on the iconic figures Amos ‘n Andy. With co-editors Walter Mosley and Gary Phillips, he will publish a graphic/comic book short fiction collection called The Darker Mask. A another graphic novel, based on African American mob-buster Eunice Hunton Carter, Gangsterland, is planned. He is presenter at the Hurston-Wright Awards at the National Press Club in November, 2007.

Mr. Chambers resides in Silver Spring, MD with his wife
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